by Alex Johnston
Abbi Pulling is another who you might have heard of before but hadn’t realised how good she is until this year.
The 21 year old Brit is running a dual campaign with Rodin Motorsport - racing in both F1 Academy, where she leads the championship despite early predictions that Doriane Pin would dominate the series, and also in British F4 where she’s sitting sixth.
📸 Pulling(right) with Doriane Pin.
In F1 Academy she’s won four of the opening six races taking four wins, and has stood on the podium at every attempt. In British F4, the Alpine Academy star has taken two podiums and a single win from the opening 15 races.
📸 Celebrations after the Barcelona F1 Academy round.
The wins she’s taken this year are the first of her career but the Lincolnshire born driver has made a habit of scoring podiums and points in her previous exploits in the now ill-fated W Series championship, the 2020 British F4 campaign and in Ginetta cars before she stepped into single seaters.
As an Alpine driver, she’ll hope to impress more than she already is to keep the backing of the Enstone outfit and potentially put herself in contention for an FIA Formula 3 drive in 2025 - something she appears to be capable of managing.
📸 Alpine have already brought Sophia Floersch to F3 - could they be the next to bring another female driver into the series?
Under the guidance of Alice Powell, Pulling will know what is required to progress further and who can help her do that - I’m excited to see what is next for her.
📸 Pulling with her mentor, Alice Powell.
📸 Image credits: Abbi Pulling, Formula Motorsport Limited, Sophia Floersch.
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